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Feyisa Lilesa posing with a Minnesota resident at Friday's event. When Feyisa Lilesa, a medal-winning Olympic runner from Ethiopia, visited Minnesota last weekend, most of the state didn’t notice.

SAN LORENZO — On Easter Sunday, a holiday of beginnings, the Oromo Evangelical Lutheran Church held its first full service in its own space. “We feel fortunate to have found the church,” said elder ...

Authorities in Oromia, Ethiopia’s largest state, have infuriated language experts and Oromo nationalists with their decision to re-arrange the order of the alphabet of the region’s language, Afan ...

The Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC) will be the first college in the U.S. to offer an Afaan Oromo course this September, the instructor said. Adjunct Instructor Mathias Gudina will ...

Within minutes of arriving at the Oromo Exhibit Booth at the 79th Festival of Nations, I heard the question, “Where is Oromo?” more than I have in the past eight years combined. The Festival of ...

My name is Gidira. I am originally from Ethiopia and currently living in Portland. Martin Luther King once said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Indeed the injustice inflicted on ...

Since the Ethiopian government announced plans to expand the territory of the capital Addis Ababa in April 2014, the country's largest region, Oromia, has been racked with protests that have led to ...

Unable to hold Oromo Night in February like usual due to COVID-19, the Oromo Student Union (OSU) board had to adjust plans for their annual cultural celebration upon its approval in March. Their ...

The photograph, taken by Art History Professor Dr. Peri Klemm, is part of the exhibit Bareedin: Women of Oromia. Photo Credit: Krista Daly / Senior Reporter The Art 404 exhibition design class ...

On many occasions in St. Cloud, Dotoo Nebi noticed that something about his slim body, average height and dark complexion sorts him into a community he technically doesn’t belong to: Somalis. “People ...